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Implications of Lawrence’s Protest: “I am so tired of being told that I want mankind to go back to the condition of savages”

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In this essay, I explore, from the vantage point of postcolonial studies, the implications of Lawrence’s protest in 1929 against contemporary opinions of him, as in Windham Lewis’s Paleface (1927), which portrayed Lawrence as advocating for primitivism with the message “Be Savage.” Recognizing that Lawrence, in many ways, prefigured the work of postcolonial theorists, I turn to postcolonial studies for three insights: the understanding that reversing concepts like “values” merely legitimizes them, an idea shared by both Lawrence and postcolonial theorists; an awareness of the arbitrariness in the constructions of concepts; skepticism of the evolutionist model. I argue that Lawrence not only presaged the insights postcolonial theorists would later offer about primitivism, but he also augmented their views by investigating alternatives to modern society. Consequently, while this essay’s main intention is to delve into the implications of Lawrence’s protest, it also strives to facilitate a meaningful dialogue between Lawrence and postcolonial studies. In doing so, I draw inspiration from M. M. Bakhtin’s concept of “mutual illumination”: on the one hand, this essay hopefully sheds light on Lawrence’s perspectives on primitivism through the prism of postcolonial studies, thereby adding a political dimension to the discussion; on the other hand, it critically assesses major postcolonial theories from the perspective Lawrence provides, aiming not only to identify parallels between Lawrence and these theorists but also to reveal any potential limitations in their approaches.

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In this essay, I explore, from the vantage point of postcolonial studies, the implications of Lawrence’s protest in 1929 against contemporary opinions of him, as in Windham Lewis’s Paleface (1927), which portrayed Lawrence as advocating for primitivism with the message “Be Savage.” Recognizing that Lawrence, in many ways, prefigured the work of postcolonial theorists, I turn to postcolonial studies for three insights: the understanding that reversing concepts like “values” merely legitimizes them, an idea shared by both Lawrence and postcolonial theorists; an awareness of the arbitrariness in the constructions of concepts; skepticism of the evolutionist model. I argue that Lawrence not only presaged the insights postcolonial theorists would later offer about primitivism, but he also augmented their views by investigating alternatives to modern society. Consequently, while this essay’s main intention is to delve into the implications of Lawrence’s protest, it also strives to facilitate a meaningful dialogue between Lawrence and postcolonial studies. In doing so, I draw inspiration from M. M. Bakhtin’s concept of “mutual illumination”: on the one hand, this essay hopefully sheds light on Lawrence’s perspectives on primitivism through the prism of postcolonial studies, thereby adding a political dimension to the discussion; on the other hand, it critically assesses major postcolonial theories from the perspective Lawrence provides, aiming not only to identify parallels between Lawrence and these theorists but also to reveal any potential limitations in their approaches.

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